Brock

Blackest Night #7 is the 1st White Lantern. Some are suggesting a Naomi connection via that route. Your mileage may vary.

I, for one, love your updates... but this one might benefit from a little more, um, specificity. i need all the help I can get sometimes.

I had a high grade V2 1-3 set up on ebay for over a year with no takers, and a low price with best offer. 3 and 4 are hard to find, but the market is small.

I snagged a Y The Last Man #4 out of a dollar box yesterday, and was surprised to find that a number of recent ebay sales were in the $25 to $35 range. It also seemed that #2, #3 and #5 were edging up, though prices vary. I knew #1 was climbing, but had not picked up on these. It also struck me in looking at completed sales that while there are many Y trades available, and a few slabbed copies, there are not many raw copies. Does this suggest that supply is fairly limited? Could this drive prices fairly rapidly as the TV show develops?

I had one today, who made an offer on a bagged 3-pack of Whitmans. I accepted his offer, and he sent the following note: Hey how’s it going I was seening if you can cancel this order because it’s something I got similar all ready I didn’t even know I really Apologize for the inconvenience You can 't make this stuff up.

Yes, that's the scarce She-Hulk variant.

He's in Canada... in which case, it's still "honour".

To make me buy 2 copies... the only hope I have of ever getting my money back is if @divad decides to sell my copies for me.

Hi Mollie - Could you add Phantom Lady #nn (Verotik, 1994) to the Adam Hughes Cover Set? For a graded example of this book, please see registration number 1990392002. Thanks so much!

I remember scouring the newsstands for copies of that book... If Shadowhawk ever helps the Avengers fight Thanos in the MCU, I'll be rich.

Not true! I post it here when the Guide is released!

I'm the OP... let me first say how great it is to see all this activity in the thread. I file my Market Report to Overstreet in December every year (and it gets published the following July), but I'm always keeping an eye on the discussion here. The original rationale was that the existing lists in Overstreet (as has been referenced above) were based solely on price, which meant that for things like Bronze and Copper books, it was always rare variants (like the 2D edition of Miracleman 3D) that dominated those lists. To my mind, this doesn't tell me a great deal about the overall market, and my mandate from Overstreet was to try to increase late bronze, copper and modern content in the market reports. I try to cover lots of ideas and trends (and I'm always open to feedback), but my sense was that an ever-evolving list of what the marketplace saw as "keys" would be of interest, as it mixes ideas of market demand, content appreciation, and the cultural "zeitgeist" in a way that a numerical price list doesn't. And rather than just using my own list, I though it would be cool to leverage the collective knowledge of these boards to support that effort. The result is a list that I'm sure nobody is 100% in agreement with (including me), but that hopefully represents a general consensus about what the Copper Age keys are... or at least the beginnings of a consensus. The fascinating thing for me is that the list does change from year to year. For a time, Apocalypse appearances really were "hot" - and they climbed onto the list. That's clearly not the case now, but as the hobby changes, so does the list. It is (at best) an imperfect exercise, but I feel that input and discussion can only improve it, and the OSPG more broadly.

Fanboy #6 from DC Comics, published in 1999... an auction just finished over $240 for a 9.8. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Fanboy-6-CGC-9-8-Aragones-Spiegle-Jimenez-Comic-Book-Fan-Finster-Wonder-Woman/303097378162?hash=item469202f572:g:kD8AAOSwf-Bci-dS I dropped out of the bidding at around $150, and was astonished that it went even that high. My guess is that the Bolland Wonder Woman crowd was in a feeding frenzy...

The Massive from Dark Horse.

Slightly better known than the All-New Wang, which of course debuted in Giant-Size Man-Thing #1.

FOMO

Like that scene in Canadian Bacon when police officer Dan Akroyd makes the Americans translate their anti-Canadian grafitti into French...

It depends on the weight, package dimensions and distance. if the package is over 1 kg, and has dimensions (L +W + H) totalling 90 cm or less, then you’re typically looking at about $20-$25. It’s supposed to vary by distance, but distance seems to Typically be measured by some random set of criteria. There’s a tool on the Canada Post website wher you can input the weight, size and send & receiving postal codes, and it will tell you the cost. You can also apply for a Venture card if you’re going to be doing this regularly. It doesn’t cost anything, but does give discounts for shipping within Canada.

A few finds today, mostly as a way of resurrecting this thread! CBSI (FWIW) tells me that GL 68 and Flash 101 are tougher books, and the Detective Annual 8 seems to do well on ebay.

Hi Mollie - Could you add Wild, Wild West #1 (Millennium, 10/90) to the Adam Hughes Cover Set? For a graded example of this book, please see registration number 2007000016. Thanks so much!

I feel like the number is relatively high, though much of it is casual. Think of all the finds in antique malls, etc. that are recounted in these pages... if there were only 30,000 of us, that averages less than 500 per state and province. It seems unlikely that it would be worth selling comics in places like that if only a handful of people will look at your stuff in a typical month/year. And that small a base of collectors surely wouldn't be enough to drive price increases over time. And yet we find keys scooped at the antique malls, people bidding at public auctions, folks lining up at estate sales, collections getting snapped up on Craigslist... Some aspects of the market may be more formal than others, and it's definitely smaller than it was, but I still think it's relatively big. Well, biggish...

Nice find! I sold that same pair of books on ebay 2 years ago for $90. Haven't seen any since.

So, I’m here in the Dominican Republic and decide to check in a see what’s what back home, and have a HOLY SMOKES THERE’S TEN NEW PAGES OF MODERNS HEATING UP THE MARKET MUST BE GOING CRAZY moment... Sadly, it was short-lived.

I was in Courtenay, where the median price for a detached 3 bedroom house is US$337,000. I appreciate your efforts, @spreads, but I've long since given up trying to explain Canadian geography to people... to Americans, it's all just "cold" and "north". To Europeans, they have nothing to give them reference for size... the concept of a forest large enough to get lost in, for example, is mind-boggling for many. Or that if I'm sitting in Halifax, I'm more than 1,000 km closer to London, England than I am to Vancouver. My favourite, though, was the young woman when I was living in North Carolina who told me excitedly, "You're from Canada? My God, you speak English so well!" None of us is as good as we could be at understanding our neighbours, but Canadians will forever be known as frozen denizens of a snowy wasteland. With Toronto as their capital city.

You do realize you're proclaiming the sophistication and expertise of all boardies only a half dozen posts after a bitcoinswami's "Gem Mint" 9.8 2016/2019 extravaganza, right?